This is the first in a series of Seeking Alpha interviews with prominent individuals in the investment world. These, however, are interviews with a twist: the individual has agreed to answer questions and respond to comments not from a single interviewer, but rather from our community of readers and contributors.

This first interview is with Luciano Siracusano, Director of Research for ETF firm WisdomTree Asset Management, which has sponsored the interview. It works like this:

Luciano briefly introduces himself and the issues he's focused on below.

Readers and contributors can immediately start to post questions and remarks using the comment box below (Note: you need to sign up for free registration and be logged in to do so).

Seeking Alpha editors will not filter or edit the questions and comments from readers, except to delete insulting or overly aggressive language.

Luciano has agreed to respond to the questions and remarks for two days, and will begin posting answers to readers' questions on Thursday, December 14th. Readers can track his answers and respond to them on Thursday and Friday.

Readers can respond to his responses during that time.

Over to Luciano:

I'm Luciano Siracusano, Director of Research at WisdomTree Asset Management and a registered representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.

Thanks to Seeking Alpha for providing this opportunity to chat directly with the ETF investment community. At WisdomTree, we developed the first family of fundamentally weighted indexes and ETFs and now offer 30 fundamentally weighted ETFs that in our view can provide investors access to the dividend stream around the world with precision.

Our initial product launch of 20 ETFs in June included the first international smallcap ETFs listed in the US and the first family of ETFs that track indexes comprised of high-yielding international equity securities. In October, we announced the addition of 10 international sector ETFs, with each ETF to focus on a specific industry sector tracking an underlying index consisting of only international equity securities, so we're the first ETF family to offer pure international sector exposure. You can view a complete list of all of our ETFs here.

WisdomTree Investments (WSDT) has some distinguished people involved, including hedge fund pioneer Michael Steinhardt (a Board member) and Wharton Professor Jeremy J. Siegel (our Senior Investment Strategy Advisor). Last month we announced that WisdomTree ETFs now has over a billion dollars under management.

I'm happy to discuss a range of topics with Seeking Alpha's readers, including: fundamentally weighted versus market cap weighted indexes, the rationale for dividend based ETFs, international investing with ETFs, and ETFs generally. Please leave your questions by using the comment box below.

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